Well YEAH! Wouldn't you, if you were Krista?Some animals will void their bowels before battle as part of the flight or fight response. I used to say, "Krista did her business to show she meant business." It was often the transfer from cage to carrier that this would occur. It was often at this time that I also heard her swearing like a sailor and probably taking a few skin souvenirs from unlucky techs. I don't know exactly what happened each time. It just became this thing with her that there was a 50/50 chance I was going to be offered a carrier full of cat and poop (and the bill, of course.) Gee thanks!
Yes, poop cats come in other colorations besides monochromatic.
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It also became a thing for me to keep a cardboard carrier and a trash bag in the trunk for vet visits. If she pooped her carrier on the transfer, then I'd dump the angry poop cat into the box and the carrier in the trash bag. Sometimes I washed it. Sometimes I just bought a new one on Chewy. The carrier, that is. The cat was unloaded into the bathroom with a meal and a camera and left to sort it out on her own. I believe we both preferred it that way.
It's weird. With all of the many, many cats in my life, I can't remember a single one ever doing this. Peeing a little, yes.
*No extra charge for that* I guess...